NO SPAM, PLEASE -- IRS Tax Refund Email Notification Spam
The following mail received apparently from Internal Revenue Service (IRS) United States Department of the Treasury enticing the recipients to use the attachment to apply for tax refunds, calculated recently by the Department.
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| IRS Tax Refund Email Notification Spam |
As far as I'm concerned, I got it as a spam with the first sight because I have never been registered with IRS for any reason. When I did some research, it was found that cyber fraudsters are using this means to cheat the U.S. tax payers.
Mail contents are given below:
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From: Internal Revenue Service (message07621@34234.irs.gov)
To: (Omitted by Author of this article)
Sent: Wednesday, 29 February 2012 8:39 AM
Subject: Tax notification for (Omitted by Author of this article)
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
United States Department of the Treasury
After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have
determined that you are eligible to receive your tax return.
Due to invalid account records we were unable to credit your account.
Please submit a verified tax return request as soon as possible.
Your tax return request form is attached to this email.
After you submit the tax return request, please allow us
4 to 12 working days in order to process it.
Regards,
Internal Revenue Service
February 28th, 2012 (10:39:11 p.m.)
Document Reference: (1442361382).
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I referred the following sources for my research:
Cyber World Frauds
IRS
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